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DUNCAN GIBBS – GENERAL MANAGER
ANALYST VISIT – 3RD MARCH 2014
Sunrise Dam Gold MineRichard Jordinson – General Manager
JULY 2014
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Welcome to the Great Sandy Desert
Key facts
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Location: 220 km NE of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia
Production to date: 5.8 million ounces since 1997
Production Q1, 2014: 71,000 oz at a Total Cash Cost of US$1,066/oz and AISC of US$1,095/oz
Mining: Solely underground; open pit mining completed in Q1, 2014. Mining carried out by contractors.
Processing: Conventional CIL/gravity processing, throughput rate of 3.6 mtpa
Ore Reserve* (as at December 31, 2013): 1.18 Moz
Mineral Resources* (inclusive, as at December 31, 2013): 3.23 Moz
* Please see Mineral Reserves and Ore Resources 2013 Report at www.anglogoldashanti.com for relevant competent persons report and JORC detail.
Sunrise Dam Management Team
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Richard Jordinson
General Manager: Sunrise Dam
Bryan Watson
Underground Production Manager
Peter Merry
Manager: Technical Services
Fraser Clark
Manager: Geology
Tim Darley
Manager: Safety & Training
David Barker
Manager: Processing
Tony Ryan
Manager: Maintenance
Ryan Arblaster
Manager: Business Support & Services
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Safety performance
Hazard ID & Risk Assessment
Incident & Action Management
Competency Based Training
Visible Leadership
Audit, Compliance & Accountability
High Potential incidents reduced by 35%
Significant reduction in Severity rates
Completion of open pit mining
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• Retreat mining and final cut of Crown Pillar completed in Q1 2014
• Crown Pillar allowed SDGM to maintain production levels in 2013 during
underground ramp-up
• Backfilling of Crown Pillar to establish underground ROM pad
• Underground ore rehandle starts under new contract in July 2014 with significant
savings
• Final pit design allows for establishment of major sump and pumping infrastructure
1962mRL Portal
Sump and pumps
U/G Ore stocks
In-Pit ROM Pad
1962mRl Portal
Plant performance
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• Mill throughput on target to achieve 3.6mtpa
• Recoveries are better than the target at 86%
• Plant reliability is high at 97%
Underground mine objectives
Repeat the success of the open pit in an underground setting by:• Using existing U/G infrastructure - decline access• Extensive ore development utilising R/C drilling for grade control • Large scale mining = improved productivity & lower costs• Multiple ore sources, including bulk mining areas, with selective mining of high grade ore
RC + D/D Drilled O/Pit
D/D Drilled only U/G
Underground mining
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• Alliance-style mining contract with Barminco
• Demonstrated viable bulk mining capability
• Ore zones are suitable for high-volume long-hole stoping
• The mine is delivering on planned grade of 3.0g/t
• Increase in ore reserves achieved in a lower gold price environment
• Reduction in $/t mining cost by approx. 50% over past two years driven by improving productivity
• At the same time ore mined has increased by almost 100%
Ramping up underground mining
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• Consistent year-on-year increase
• SDGM is on track to achieve 2.4 Mt mined for 2014
GQ orebody breakthroughs
• GQ a large low grade resource
• Mineralisation is complex
• Local high grades exist, but continuity very poor, restricting mining at elevated cut-off grades
• Intensive mining geology and reconciliation study completed in 2011 to better understand resource, including batch treating trial stope and development ore
• Traditional sampling methods consistently underestimate the grade
• RC drilling successfully introduced as a grade control tool to replace diamond drilling and face sampling
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RC grade control drilling overview
• RC grade control drilling is well suited to Sunrise Dam mineralisation and the bulk mining approach
• RC drilling is half the price of diamond drilling and three times faster
• RC drilling doesn’t rely on downstream core processing facilities, contributing to lower overheads and faster sample turnaround
• Grade control work in GQ has set the mine up for the next 18 months production
• Mining Reserve conversion is very high –100% Tonnes, 92% Grade and 92% Ounces
Growth in reserves & resources*
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Mt g/t Moz Mt g/t Moz Mt g/t Moz
Reserve 20.0 1.84 1.18 21.1 1.73 1.18 1.1 (0.11) -
Resource 40.7 2.16 2.82 44.8 2.24 3.23 4.1 0.08 0.41
Sunrise Dam
Gold Mine
Dec‐12 Dec‐13 Change
* Please see Mineral Reserves and Ore Resources 2013 Report at www.anglogoldashanti.com for relevant competent persons report and JORC detail.
Exploration potential
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Underground mining strategy
EXPLORATION/RESOURCE DEFINITIONIncrease in exploration activity to provide working areas
MININGIncrease movement to +3.0 Mtpa by 2017
MATERIALS HANDLINGStudy and potential project
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Sunrise Dam regional exploration
SDGM
20 km
Granny Smith
Wallaby
Mt Morgans
Red October
Butcher Well
• Laverton District well endowed
• <3Moz Au known resources in early 90’s
• Current endowment is >28Moz Au
• One of the most fertile belts in the YilgarnCraton
• Most large major discoveries have been blind / under cover
• Tectonic setting and structural geometry favourable for further discoveries
• Three key target areas that have potential to host >3Moz Au deposits
• All predominantly under cover – last frontier
• Exploration at western lake tenements crucial for future discoveries
• Collaborative greenfields-brownfields exploration programme planned for 2015